Yokkaichi Onsen Mie
- Location
- Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 41 °C
- pH
- 7.3
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Yokkaichi Onsen Mie is a thermal bathing facility in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture's largest industrial city on Ise Bay, historically known for the Yokkaichi pollution incident of the 1960s, which became a landmark case in the country's environmental movement leading to groundbreaking clean air legislation. The chloride-sodium thermal waters here offer a relaxing bathing experience within a long thermal tradition, associated with warmth and skin comfort. Yokkaichi's remarkable transformation from a symbol of industrial pollution to a model of environmental recovery gives the act of soaking in its clean, naturally mineral-rich thermal waters a particularly poignant dimension of renewal and resilience.